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# Re: regex substitution

- Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 22:53:41 PST
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    >At 09:06 PM 3/6/96 PST, Bolie Williams IV wrote:
    >>What I want to do is take an arbitrary string and substitute one
    >>string for arbitrary substrings.  For example, substitute an 's' or
    >>any number of 's's with the letter 't'.  Using sed, I'd just do a
    >>s/ss*/t/ or s/s+/t/ (I think).  I'm going to be substituting in arbitrary
    >>text, though, so I don't have the luxury of marking my substitutions
    >>with %'s.
    >
    >Oh, I see:
    >
    >;strsub("What the fuck is STRSUB???","fuck","fudge")
    >=> "What the fudge is STRSUB???"

    That's fine... what I *want* is this:

    ;strsub("Can we be more patronizing?","mm*","b")
    => "Can we be bore patronizing?"

    but what I get is this:

    => "Can we be more patronizing?"

    I have looked at the builtins and at $string_utils and it doesn't
    look like anything does that.  I am curious if someone has written
    something that does do this or if I'm missing something...

    Bolie IV

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